Chapter Summaries

Wei He convinced Qisha and the Star Warriors that they descended from the Xuanmiao Sect, while preparing to enter the Black Gate and explore the Suffocation Layer. After learning the truth about their origins, Qisha and the others watched as Wei He said goodbye and stepped through the gate.

• Wei He used evidence about the Star Warriors' origins to persuade Qisha and Ersha that they were connected to the Xuanmiao Sect and promised to help find their mother.
• Over the next three days, Qisha and the Star Warriors traced their origins to Yuan Du Zi's severed tail and confirmed their connection to the Xuanmiao Sect.
• Wei He prepared to enter the Black Gate as General Klin and research leader Crowley briefed him on the dangers beyond it.
• When the Black Gate's radiation weakened, Wei He said goodbye to Ding Luoying and the others, then stepped through the gate.

Wei He entered the Black Gate and adapted to the Suffocation Layer by grafting a beetle’s compound eye onto his shoulder, giving him limited vision. In a chamber, he found a warning left by Eldest Senior Sister and watched a recording of Yuan Du Zi fighting two armored figures before vanishing.

• Wei He spent hours moving through the darkness until he found a glowing beetle and used its compound eye to gain faint vision.
• Wei He followed a flesh-covered corridor into a chamber and found a partly obscured warning written by Eldest Senior Sister.
• Wei He activated a wall device that displayed a vast wilderness and a massive black bridge.
• Wei He recognized Yuan Du Zi battling two dark-red armored figures in the display, saw her fall behind, and watched all three disappear.

Wei He explored a flesh-covered spacecraft, escaped a deadly flesh moth, and adapted part of its hearing organs. He met a scavenger who mistook him for one of their own and agreed to follow them for help and information.

• Wei He entered a vast hall covered in living flesh and was attacked by a flesh moth that pursued him through the corridors.
• The moth crashed into an invisible purple barrier and died, allowing Wei He to collect and absorb some of its auditory organs.
• Wei He regained limited hearing and noticed a suited scavenger gathering the moth's remains.
• Wei He spoke in several languages until the scavenger recognized the Demon Race common language of Linzhou and asked whether he was a scavenger.
• The scavenger warned Wei He that his protective suit's radiation readings were dangerously high and offered to take him back for an anti-corrosion injection, and Wei He agreed.

Wei He crossed the purple light wall with Assam Redo and entered a radiation-contaminated wasteland, where he learned about the nearby Hidden City. Meanwhile, Komola detected a radiation flare at the ruins and sent a team to investigate, while Assam realized Wei He could not afford basic survival supplies.

• Wei He followed Assam Redo through a gap in the purple light wall and traveled with him across the dust storm.
• Komola and a silver-haired officer detected a brief radiation surge at distant ruins and dispatched an exosuit squad to investigate.
• Assam brought Wei He to Number Five Shelter, also known as Hidden City, and explained that its residents relied on radiation injections to survive.
• Wei He considered how to conceal his identity and find a way to accelerate his progress toward the Grandmaster realm.
• When Wei He said he had no money, Assam realized he could not afford even a basic radiation injection.

Wei He reached the entrance to Hidden City without an ID card, and Assam explained that Wei He could prove his humanity by demonstrating his talent for piloting a colony body. Meanwhile, investigators traced Wei He’s path through the ruins and judged the radiation he left behind to be weak; the chapter ended with Wei considering how his exceptional physical strength might combine with a colony body.

• Assam offered Wei He a radiation injection and explained that people without protective suits could go outside by piloting colony bodies.
• Wei He realized he had no ID card at Hidden City’s guarded entrance and considered leaving rather than risk being treated as a contaminated beast.
• Three white-furred investigators entered the ruins, traced Wei He’s movements, and measured his residual radiation at no more than Level 2.
• Assam revealed that he had sensed Wei He’s psychic energy and offered to help him prove his colony body talent to gain entry to Hidden City.
• Wei He learned that psychic energy controlled colony bodies and recognized similarities to the Cancerous Cell Path he had created.
• Wei He considered how a colony body might amplify his unusually powerful physique.

Wei He entered a hidden city and was guided by Assam toward its training center to register as a spirit-energy talent. He arrived at the registration office, where he met Castor while waiting in line.

• Assam brought Wei He through the hidden city entrance after the guards confirmed Wei He had spirit energy talent.
• Assam flew Wei He through the underground city in his aircraft, gave him a language database, and explained that he needed an identity card to get around.
• Assam took Wei He to the training center, gave him a bag, and sent him through the gate alone, urging him to train and get a radiation shot.
• Wei He rode an elevator to a registration office and joined a line of three people with spirit energy fluctuations.
• Castor introduced himself as a member of the Yisha tribe and said he and Wei He would be assigned training together after registering.

Wei He entered the Hidden City, used a radiation needle to conceal his Returning True Energy, and faced a search by White Tower personnel tracking a contaminated beast. He avoided exposure by sending a piece of his own flesh to draw the hunters away, then resolved to keep a low profile.

• Three bio-armor soldiers entered the Hidden City to hunt a contaminated beast they had tracked from the ruins.
• Wei He drank the radiation needle Assam had given him and studied a book about bio-armor, though its specialized translation was unreadable.
• Kao brought Oman and Fright to Wei He's room for a routine inspection, and the two White Tower personnel recognized an unusual radiation scent on him.
• Oman and Fright suspected Wei He might be the contaminated beast, but a piece of his flesh darted out from under the bed and drew them away.
• Oman and Fright killed the decoy and apologized for suspecting Wei He, who saw that the hunters had destroyed a large portion of his separated flesh.

After the inspection cleared some suspicion, Wei He joined Hidden City’s military training and studied its history and armored bodies while seeking a path to higher rank. More than a month later, basic training was nearly over, and the trainees began the next stage: sparring combat.

• Fright and Oman examined the contaminated beast and decided the suspicious newcomer would be observed, while leaving further checks to the inspection squad.
• Wei He learned that the planet was resource-mining world 228, discovered the history of the All-Humans and their Dream Realm Project, and found no trace of Eldest Senior Sister.
• Wei He asked instructor Holv about armored-body grades, combat strength, and military advancement, learning that killing contaminated beasts earned military merit.
• Wei He spent more than a month studying at the library, training, and cultivating psionic power, then received the Penza Military Psionic Method.
• Holv led the trainees to begin the second stage of training through sparring combat.

A horde of pollution beasts poured through a portal into Planet 228 as Wei He dominated his training and caught Instructor Holv’s attention. When an alarm signaled an attack, the trainees were ordered to take Battlesuits and enter actual combat, giving Wei He an early chance to prove himself.

• A dark opening appeared above the Bigu Great Desert, releasing countless pollution beasts that spread into the surrounding regions.
• Wei He won the unarmed combat match, impressing Holv with his combat skills and rapid psionic progress.
• Kao questioned Holv about Wei He, and Holv said he planned to recommend him for intensive training after actual combat.
• An alarm sounded, and Holv assembled the trainees and announced they would receive Battlesuits and immediately fight pollution beasts.
• Lolsa challenged Wei He to compete over who would kill more pollution beasts, but he dismissed her and focused on proving himself.

Wei He and the recruits equipped themselves with Liva colony suits and tested their capabilities before being sent to intercept contaminated beasts. As two fast cannon-fodder beasts attacked, Wei He held back to observe the fight and assess their strengths and weaknesses.

• Instructor Holv led the recruits to the underground armory and explained how to wear and control the living colony suits.
• Wei He merged his psychic power with a basic Liva suit, reached its control limit, and was launched to the surface with the other recruits.
• Wei He tested the suit and found it could deliver up to five tons of punching force at twice the speed of sound, while he studied its biological structure.
• Holv ordered the recruits to serve as a second line of defense against contaminated beasts after Security Department forces engaged nearby groups.
• Two cannon-fodder beasts charged the recruits, and Wei He stayed back to observe as the beasts outmaneuvered the colony-suit fighters.

Wei He killed a fodder beast and learned that killing ten would earn him a military promotion, so he left the recruits to hunt more. Ende followed him but abandoned his plan to attack after being warned not to disrupt an experiment.

• Two fodder beasts overwhelmed the recruits, and Wei He, Lolsa, and Ende charged in when more arrived.
• Wei He killed a half-goat fodder beast by piercing its chest and crushing its head, while Ende also defeated his opponent and Lolsa struggled against a bat-shaped beast.
• Wei He learned that ten fodder-beast kills would promote him to Private Second Class and ran toward the first line of defense to hunt more.
• Ende followed Wei He and considered attacking him, but a voice over his earpiece ordered him not to jeopardize the experimental plan.
• Wei He confronted Ende, who withdrew, and then continued toward the fodder beasts to accumulate military merit.

Wei He fought in the ongoing pollution beast tide, earned enough military merit for promotion, and improved his sensory system while studying his carapace armor. At an awards ceremony, Resius announced the top recruits’ ranks and began checking Wei He’s record.

• Wei He hunted grunt beasts, earned promotion to Private Second Class, and obtained sensory organs through the Flesh and Blood Martial Arts Path.
• After the recruits returned to Hidden City, Wei He found Castor injured and learned that Ende was still alive; Holv praised his performance.
• Wei He fought repeated beast-tide assaults for months, joining Ende and Lolsa to intercept larger groups of grunt beasts.
• Resius held an awards ceremony for the twenty-one surviving recruits and promoted Lolsa and Ende to Private First Class based on their military merits.
• Resius announced Wei He as the top-ranked recruit and began checking his military merit record.

Wei He earned first place at the decoration ceremony after Resius confirmed he had hunted twelve polluted beasts, and he received the rank of Second Lieutenant. He entered the military library to study Liva-class body-frame designs, then planned to exchange his military merit for a better psionic method.

• Resius verified Wei He's record and announced that he had hunted twelve polluted beasts, stunning the other rookies and city representatives.
• Resius awarded Wei He the rank of Second Lieutenant, second class, and told him he could apply to enter the Silver Belt District and use the Military Merit Exchange System.
• Wei He explained that he had defeated the polluted beasts by isolating them one-on-one, while Lolsa suspected he had cheated and Ende reconsidered how strong he was.
• Wei He visited the Military Confidential Library and obtained the Liva-class body-frame materials he needed for his body's final fleshification.
• Wei He reflected on traces of radiation in his transformed body and resolved to exchange his military merit for a more suitable psionic method.

Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong sought refuge on a remote planet while discussing the persecution of mutants. On Planet 228, Wei He purchased the first level of the Star Sea Spirit Art and continued preparing for his next steps during his squad’s break.

• Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong landed in a desert blind spot where they hoped to stay beyond the Empire’s and Star Abyss’s surveillance.
• Li Rong questioned whether mutants could escape their hunted existence, and Yuan Du Zi said they would find hope.
• Wei He reviewed the available Spirit Arts and chose the difficult-to-master Star Sea Spirit Art to exploit the Boundary-Breaking Pearl.
• Wei He bought its first level, tried to visualize its star map, and learned from the forum that reaching the first level commonly took at least fifteen years.
• Wei He ignored an alarm during his half-month break, studied Liva-class body frames, and continued refining his body as his transformation progress passed ninety percent.

Wei He completed his transformation into a Grandmaster of the Flesh and Blood Martial Arts Path, refining his power into new states while retaining the Gravity God. He then offered Assam the chance to bring one person to the Silver Belt District, where Wei He hoped to investigate Eldest Senior Sister’s past.

• Wei He finished converting his body’s True Blood and True Force into the Flesh and Blood Martial Arts Path, gaining precise control and understanding the Grandmaster realm.
• Wei He found that the Gravity God still worked after the conversion and named his three special forms the Blood Energy State, Fusion State, and Dragon Turn State.
• After spending two more days adapting, Wei He visited Assam and told him his approved application would let him take one relative or friend to the Silver Belt District.
• Wei He offered the opportunity to Assam, who checked the approval and asked to discuss it privately with his family.
• Wei He waited nearby, intending to use his trip to the Silver Belt District to seek clues about what had happened to Eldest Senior Sister.

After learning that the Penza Empire planned to freeze Planet 116 because of contaminated entities, Wei He discovered that people like him were considered dangerous sources of contamination and resolved to hide his identity. The next day, he took Assam’s daughter Sally toward the Silver Belt District, where she would stay with him until her identity was finalized.

• Wei He watched the news announce that General Herudan Garcia Dis would freeze Planet 116 in five days because its contamination had become irreversible.
• Assam gave Wei He money for Sally’s ticket, and Wei He agreed to take her to the Silver Belt District.
• Wei He researched contaminated entities and realized that he and Eldest Senior Sister were likely classified as such, putting them at risk if discovered.
• Wei He resolved to conceal his identity and worried about Eldest Senior Sister Yuan Du Zi and the others.
• On January 11, Wei He and Sally boarded a spacecraft ascending from the Hidden City, and he explained that she would stay with him until her identity was finalized.

Wei He and Sally arrived at the Silver Belt District, where Wei He began a thirty-day advanced training camp required for him to qualify to stay. After a week of training, he watched young trainee Yuna rise from piloting a Liva-class frame to a Shadow Bug-class one, while his own psionic growth left him less conspicuous.

• Wei He and Sally left the planet’s surface and entered the Silver Belt District, where Zhang Yuling greeted them on Resius’s behalf.
• Zhang Yuling explained that Wei He needed to pass a physical examination and complete the advanced training camp, while Sally’s stay would also be decided.
• After two days of arrival procedures, Wei He began the thirty-day training program and studied higher-level body frames.
• A week later, Wei He observed two trainees sparring in Shadow Bug-class frames as chief instructor List explained the trainees’ future placement options.
• Yuna defeated her opponent and was assessed at Shadow Bug level, astonishing Wei He, Ivy, and Henry with her rapid progress.

Wei He completed the thirty-day Second Lieutenant training, quietly studying Shadow Bug bio-suits and spirit arts despite his slow psionic growth. After graduation, he and the other veterans were approached with job offers while the story left their next steps undecided.

• Wei He declined Ivy's invitation for a drink and focused on researching Shadow Bugs and ways to improve his spirit art cultivation.
• Siv received orders to monitor three Second Lieutenants and prepare an experimental attack using semi-mechanical equipment instead of tracked bio-suits.
• Wei He defeated Sri Lanka in a training match, then finished the course ranked among the lower-middle for psionic growth.
• Wei He, Ivy, and Henry graduated with the other Second Lieutenants, while Yuna and Stanley drew attention from recruiters.
• Recruiters offered the veteran Second Lieutenants consulting and security jobs as Wei He headed toward the bus where Sally was waiting.

Wei He settled into life in the Silver Belt District, balancing Security Department patrols with study and friendships while continuing his long-term pursuit of greater strength. More than two years later, Henry considered returning to his family below after losing hope of advancing further.

• Wei He declined the job offers he received after training, told Sally they would live at Silver Wolf Manor in the Rainbow District, and received a message from Ende, who identified himself as Secret Whisper.
• Wei He chose a concurrent post at Warsaw University and began working in the Security Department, while spending his free time studying and socializing with Ivy, Henry, and Sri Lanka.
• Over two years passed, and in April 1277, Sri Lanka was drafted to the surface for additional training as the Silver Belt District sent guard units on nest-clearing missions.
• At a bar, Henry told Wei He and Ivy that he planned to return to his family below because he had found little hope of extending his life or advancing further.

Wei He began working at the Silver Belt District Security Department, where a woman tried and failed to secretly take his blood sample. He realized he was being watched and entered an alley, while the people targeting him also discussed their plans to capture Bilian Saluto.

• Henry, Ivy, and Wei He toasted Henry at his farewell party before parting for the night.
• At work, Wei He explained the surface situation to Xia Li, who asked about joining a Colossi operation.
• A woman in a black trench coat collided with Wei He and tried to pierce him with a needle, but failed to obtain a sample.
• Wei He recognized the woman's attempt and sensed several people watching him as he left the Security Department.
• The woman and her partner ordered Team Two to attack Wei He with mechanical equipment and discussed finding a way to capture Bilian Saluto.